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The Foreign Service Journal, February 1993 PROBLEMS AND PRECEDENTS SOMALIA AS VICTIM: EACT AND FICTION Tv tuai/UiiLiiiru SEEKING A SOLUTION VIGNETTE PROM OLD MOGADISHU Li\I • V UlLliliUVt VI I I • I -I • 1 Li.I I LKLllTI I I I I I M l-LUS: IxLHUUl- LILTULI lill liRtlltiyilci tlLLLL Liu.' LLULULALLIUVCIL UliLLLLLLcUllUS When it’s time to entrust your valuable belongings for moving or storage, you can select Interstate with confidence. Since 1943 Interstate has represented a Now that your choice is made, call Interstate and tradition of excellence and quality for all your ask for our State Department Coordinators at (703) moving needs. For the sixth consecutive year, 569-2121, extension 233, or if you are out of town, Interstate has been selected as a primary (800) 336-4533, extension 233. contractor to provide moving and storage services for United States Department of State Our competition is good, but let us show personnel. 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MELROSE JR. There is at least one positive aspect of the then-Governor Clinton passport AID Vice President: CAREY COULTER caper—its timing. With the press still reporting on this sad affair (due in USIA Vice President: RA/.VIGOR BAZALA Retiree Vice President. Cl I ARLES A. SCHMITZ particular to the appointment of an independent counsel), there is the hope that Secretary: ANNE WOODS PATTERSON the new administration will take to heart some obvious lessons. Treasurer: JOSEPII IIUGGINS State Reptvsentatives: CAT! IF.RINF. BARKY PAULA BOYD JONATHAN FARRAR Reverse politicization of the State Department The proportion of HARRY GALLAGHER political appointees has been steadily rising. According to David Corn, writing ROBERT PERRY AID Representatives: WILLIAM I). MCKINNEY in the January 10 Washington Post Outlook section, in 1973, 11 of 63 deputy JAMES DEMPSEY IISIA Representative: LAUREN HALE assistant secretaries were political appointees, while by 1984 that proportion Retired Representatives. PATRICIA M. BYRNE had risen to 59 of 136, or almost half. Career employees have no problem with DANIEL NEWBERRY DONALD R. NORLAND political appointments perse. Indeed, we have traditionally welcomed them and DAVID SCHNEIDER worked closely with them. However, such appointees should be limited in Staff number, of the highest quality, and clearly qualified to serve in the positions to Executive Director: SUSAN REARDON Business Department which they are appointed. At a time when the national interest depends more Controller. CATHY FREGELETTE than ever on creative diplomacy, nothing less than the best possible departmen¬ Administrative Miayutger SANDRA KARLOWA Office Manager JUDY SHINN tal leadership will do. Accounting Assistant. SI IEREE E. BEANE Administrative Assistant: DIANNA DUNBRACK ILxca it ire Assistant. TARA GADOMSK1 Don’t try to “hide” questionable appointments. Did anyone seriously think four years ago that it would be acceptable to reward partisan political l egal Services legal Counsel. SHARON PAPP loyalty with an assistant secretaryship, since the bureau in question was “only” Staff Attorney: COLLEEN FALLON law Clerks: EDWIN GANIA Consular Affairs—an area that relies so heavily on experience derived from PATRICIA A. MALONE years of hands-on involvement? Particularly at this time of global change and Member Services Director JAMES YORKE tight resources, it is precisely our operational and managerial bureaus that Representatives. DEBORAH M. LEAHY JULIE SMITH LINE require leaders who know how things really work on the ground. DEREK TERRELL Membership Director: JANET L. HEDRICK Ensure the integrity of the Operations Center. The Ops Center exists to Representative: LAURIE A. McMICIIAEL guarantee that American diplomacy is able to function around the clock and that Professional Issues: RICHARD S. THOMPSON our senior officials can stay in touch with fast-breaking developments around Retiree Liaison: WARD THOMPSON the globe. Never has that function been more important than in the uncertain Congressional Liaison: RICK WEISS world in which we are now operating. The instructions by which it operates Scholarships and Development Director: GAIL VOLK must be clear and simple and must allow no room for even the appearance of Coordinator. MICHAEL DAILEY impropriety. Anything less, as we have seen, raises unnecessary questions and Speaker's Bureau and International Associates: GIL K! TICK is unfair to the top-quality men and women who work there. Conferences: JOI IN J. 11 AFTER JASON FELDMAN The American Foreign Service Association, founded in 1924, — WILLIAM A. KIRBY is the professional association of the Foreign Service and the official representativ e of all Foreign Service employees in the Department of State and the Agency for International Devel¬ opment under the terms of the Foreign Service Act of 1980. Active or Retired memlxrship in AFSA is open to all current or retired employees of the US. foreign affairs agencies. Associate meml>ership is open to persons having an interest in or close association with the Foreign Service. Annual dues: Active Members—$80-165: Retired Members—545-55; Asso- i iate Members—5 45. All AFSA members are memlxirs of the Foreign Service Club. Please note: AFSA dues and Legislative Action Fund donations may be deductible as an ordinary and necessary business expense for federal income tax purposes. Scholarship and AFSA Fund donations are deductible as charitable contributions. AMI'HICAS FORHC.N SKHVICK ASSOCIATION, 2101 E Street NW. Washington. D.C. 2003- Executive offices, membership, professional issues, scholarship programs, insurance pro¬ grams, JOI’RNALoffices: (202) 338-1045. Governing Board, standing committees, general counsel, labor-management relations, member services, grievances: (202) 647-8160 • FAX: (202)647-0265 • Foreign Service Club (202) 338-5730. 2 • FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL • FEBRUARY 1993 Voi.. 70, NO. 2 FEBRUARY 1993 JOURNAL Editorial Board Chairman BRANDON GROVE STEVEN AOKI JANET BOGUE C. STUART CALL1SON JOE B. JOHNSON ROBERT MAUSHAMMER DONALD R. NORLAND PHYLLIS OAKLEY ERIC RUBIN ROBERT TOTH Road to Ruin 26 The Hillary Syndrome 34 HANS N. TUCH FEATURES “The Independent Voice of the Foreign Service” Minefield Nicaragua 16 How two ambassadorial nominees fell victim to Central American policy Editor ANNE STEVENSON-YANC BY GEORGE GEDDA Associate Editor NANCY A. JOHNSON Focus: SOMALIA Advertising Manager TINA M. DREYFUS Communications Assistant The UN’s New Role 21 JONATHAN ULLMAN BY STANLEY MEISLER Design MARKETING & MEDIA SOLUTIONS Road to Ruin 26 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL (ISSN 0015-7279), 2101 E BY S.J. HAMRICK Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990, is published monthly by the American Foreign Serv ice The Mogadishu Potato Caper 29 Association, a private, non-profit organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions BY GILBERT D. KULICK of the writers and does not necessarily represent the views of AFSA or the JOURNAL. Writer queries are Robert Oakley: Seeking a Solution 33 invited. JOURNAL subscription: AFSA Memlx;rs -$9.50 BY JONATHAN STEVENSON included in annual dues; others - $40. Overseas subscription (except Canada ) - $50 peryear. Airmail not available. Foreign Service Quiz 30 Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send Identify the newsmakers of 1992 address changes to FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL, 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990. The Hillary Syndrome 34 Microfilm copies: University Microfilm Library Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 (October The many identities of a senior official’s spouse 1967 to present). Indexed by Public Affairs BY ALENE H. GELBARD Information Service (PAIS). Advertising inquiries invited. The
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